Europe-Asia-Pacific Studies in Economy and Technology
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Summary Report.- One The Asian NIEs and the Asia-Pacific Region.- Country Issues.- Korea: A Newly Industrializing Economy Market Opening, Internationalization and International Cooperation.- Korea 2000: Economic and Social Targets and Development Strategies.- Korea's Long-Term Trade Prospects and Policies to the Year 2000.- Taiwan: Claims and Strategies towards Europe.- The Case for Taiwan's Role in the OECD.- The Significance of Taiwan's Rejoining GATT.- The Hong Kong Economy in a Changing International Economic Environment.- Regional Issues.- Some Reflections on Prospects for Regional Co-operation in the Asian-Pacific Region.- ASEAN Reality and Perspective.- NIE-Japanese Strategic Interdependence in the Pacific Basin.- The East Asian NICs and South Asia Reality.- Thailand and the So-Called NIEs.- Market Forces in the Asian NIEs.- State Intervention, State Involvement and Market Forces - Singapore and South Korea.- The Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Asian NIEs - Business Opportunities for Western Europe?.- Two The Relations between the Asian NIEs and Europe in a Worldwide Perspective.- The NIEs and Major World Economic Issues.- A World Scenario: The Emergence of Three Main Trading Zones The European Community/Japan - East Asia - Pacific/USA - Canada.- The Concept of the International Division of Labour and Principles of Cooperation.- Technology and Global Competition: The Challenge ahead for the NIEs.- NIEs as Models for Establishing a Highly Competitive Industrial Base: What Lessons to Learn?.- The NIEs and Europe.- Europe 1992 and the NIEs.- Recent Trade Patterns between NIEs and Western Europe.- The NIEs Viewed from the German and European Perspectives.- The Ability of the German Economy to Face Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging NIEs.- Recommendations for a European Policy towards the Asian NIEs.- Annexes.- Statistical Country Profiles by Harald Mucke.- Programme of the International Round Table Meeting.- List of Participants and Authors.
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Instead, we call them threshold countries, newly industrializing countries (NICs) or newly industrializing eco- nomies (NIEs), the latter term taking into account the Chinese argument that Hong Kong and Taiwan should not be considered countries.